[cfe-commits] r171656 - in /cfe/trunk/docs: FAQ.rst index.rst

Dmitri Gribenko gribozavr at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 09:26:18 PST 2013


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
> This is good to have. I think we should explain the word "frontend" as well;
> a user of clang who doesn't know how it interacts with LLVM wouldn't
> understand that term.
>
> (Actually, given that all of LLVM is statically linked into the clang
> binary, clang -cc1 is not just an LLVM frontend from the user
> perspective...)

Another argument against the term "frontend" is that many Clang
developers actually refer to it as "cc1 mode" or something like that.

So maybe s/frontend/cc1 mode/ ?

Dmitri

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